Steve Stagg
Senior Software Engineer at Offset Design
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSteve Stagg is a Senior Software Engineer and tech lead based in London with 15 years' experience delivering pragmatic architecture, rapid prototypes and UX-focused solutions across regulated finance, media and healthcare sectors. He excels at targeted performance and architectural optimisations, code reviews and fast prototyping that inform product and board-level decisions—bringing technical clarity to non-technical stakeholders. His background spans backend, DevOps and frontend work, including improving the Mu Python editor's UI for beginners and maintaining production web services and job-listing tooling. Comfortable operating inside regulated environments, he has driven integration work recognised by major organisations and balanced hands-on coding with team leadership. Known for spotting small UX and tooling wins that deliver outsized productivity gains, he combines deep technical craft with a practical, product-oriented mindset.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Maths, Physics, English, Maths, Physics, English at Christ's Hospital
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Github Skills (28)
editors10
debugging10
debug10
fonts10
qt10
python10
user-interface10
editor10
graphical-user-interface10
human-interface10
font-face10
pyqt10
html10
testing9
yaml9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pythonjobs/jobs
Feb 2015 - Nov 2018
A repository for our international job listings
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:133 commits, 103 PRs, 145 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the repository by adding, modifying, and updating job listings, written in HTML and using a YAML-like header structure. Their work involved creating new job postings for various companies, including ARM, Skimlinks, and Made.com, and modifying existing ones, suggesting a focus on maintaining and updating content. They also updated some ad layouts, and refactored some layout elements.
job-listingspythonjoblistingstriggers
mu-editor/mu
Feb 2016 - Mar 2019
A small, simple editor for beginner Python programmers. Written in Python and Qt5.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 14 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on improving the Mu editor's user interface and functionality. They implemented the use of the Source Code Pro font, including loading and applying it throughout the editor and REPL windows. Several commits addressed UI/UX details, such as making toolbar icons crisp on HiDPI displays and fixing a text color issue on MacOS. The user also made updates to the testing suite and addressed a bug in the debugger.
pythonpython-beginnerpygameqt5simple-editor
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